alt Hacker News> The issue here is that PIs don’t have the money to support graduate students
What happened to all the money the undergrads are paying?
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Ar-Curunir • today at 4:36 PM
Almost none of that goes into research funding.
Researchers are funded largely by government grants.
Great question! Mostly it goes toward maintaining the campus and paying the admin folks. PIs are paid to teach, basically, and are expected to pull in the money to support their own research (and maintain their facilities and pay the admin folks).